January 13 » Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.
May 8 » The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
June 12 » Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
August 12 » The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.
September 10 » Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
November 3 » France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
Day of death August 31, 1966
The temperature on August 31, 1966 was between 12.0 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 13 » Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
April 26 » A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
August 23 » Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
October 15 » The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
November 11 » NASA launches Gemini 12.
December 24 » A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.
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